Family time at the Unglert/Khahsa house includes some gong meditation, a lot of time on the floor because they don’t own a table, and the consumption of some mung beans that frankly look like vomit.

The emotional roller coaster begins when Paramroop makes a touching gesture with feathers that symbolize his late wife. It escalates when he and Dean have a heated conversation about him bailing on Dean when she passed away.

Dean says his dad left him at his most vulnerable time. Paramroop doesn’t understand Dean’s anger, and basically says all he knew how to do at the time was work and make money for the family.

Not creepy at all, Paramroop

The conversation turns to Paramroop’s account of his wife dying, and it’s pretty painful to hear. I’m not sure whose side I support more, until Rachel’s encounter with Paramroop.

She asks if she can talk to him, to which he responds “if you must.” Mid-conversation, he says “this doesn’t work” and bails on the chat because of Dean’s “harsh feelings” toward him. World-class parenting.

Love by abandonment

For a couple weeks, Eric had built his family up to be a broken, dysfunctional group and the part of Baltimore where he grew up to be a rough place. His mother wasn’t there for him, he has relatives in prison and he’s never brought a girl home.

But for his hometown date, we were taken to a nice apartment in what seems like a nice part of town, and we meet a friendly group of people excited to meet Eric’s “first love.”

Eric says roughly 13 times that he’s been “running from love” and that he’s finally found it in his six weeks and one date with Rachel.

Among the cast of characters we meet is Ralph, who gives an emotional endorsement of his Eric, who he calls his “A1” and “the truth,” on a basketball court. We also meet Eric’s aunt, who is a spunky lady that looks just like him, and his mom, who does not.

His mom tells him that her not being there for him growing up was her “best way to show him love” and to “let him become the man he’s supposed to be.”

Eric somehow buys that terrible excuse for bad parenting and everything ends on good terms between them.

At the end of the date, Eric says he “really loves” Rachel, and in explaining that feeling he pretty much just says that he cares about her.

‘If he’s not happy, I’ll kill you’

Rachel heads to Miami to meet Bryan’s family, but not before they play dominoes and make out a bunch. She fawns over his Spanish just moments before he uses the wrong tense of “bienvenido” to welcome her to his hometown.

They get a couple of arepas, and Bryan, trying his best to sound cultured, says “I see they’ve stuffed it with shredded beef” when it’s clearly stuffed with shredded beef.

Arepas

We meet his mother, clearly a helicopter parent who still has some sort of Oedipus complex with her baby boy (who I’ll remind you is 37 years old). She chugs her drink after a toast, and proceeds to go HAM in her one-on-one conversations.

“You’ve gone out with so many girls, and you go on a show and fall in love with the girl on the show?,” she questions of Bryan. He responds by saying it’s “destiny” and I gag because I didn’t know “destiny” was going on a second reality show after your stint on a show called “Players” proved fruitless.

His mom tells Rachel that, if Bryan is happy, she’s happy. And if he’s not, she’ll kill Rachel, because death threats are the tie that binds a girl and her boyfriend’s family.

Bryan’s cousin seems nice, but I can’t focus on what she’s saying because she constantly has her head tilted about 15 degrees above what's normal.

Bryan&#39;s sister

Rachel says Bryan gives her “all the feels,” because that’s what infatuation is like.

Accidental butt grab

In Peter’s hometown of Madison, Wis., we start by hearing him say he wants feedback from his friends and family before he’s ready to propose after six weeks, proving that Peter has too mature of a perspective to win the final rose.

He talks about “the feels” and I just don’t get why people are saying that on this show.

With his family, Peter chooses to tell the story of how he accidentally grabbed Rachel’s butt -- a killer first impression for the girl meeting the family for the first time. But alas, no one cared because everyone was too busy swooning over Uncle Peter playing with his niece.

“If he brings you home, we know it’s serious,” Peter’s sister says, failing to realize that it’s very much a scripted show and the hometown date just happens to be the next step.

His mom tells Rachel that Peter is ready to start a family and to commit to someone, but not necessarily to propose… This is a point of concern for Rachel, who says she wants a proposal at the end of this. So, starting a family out of wedlock probably isn’t in the cards for ol’ Peter.

Rose ceremony

Dean gets booted at the rose ceremony because he definitely needed more emotional turmoil after the reunion with his father that tore open the wounds of his mother’s death.

But hey, he scored a sweet umbrella out of the deal. The clear umbrella that Rachel was carrying in Miami with Bryan ends up in Aspen, Colo. with Dean, and he keeps it as Rachel drives away after their hometown.

Dean didn&#39;t get a rose, but he wound up with Rachel&#39;s umbrella